Many an Instagram photo has been shot at this spot, which has housed Lucasfilm offices since 2005.

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The Yoda fountain and Lucasfilm HQ, the Presidio

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The Sentinel Building, 916 Kearney St.

This historic building has been the headquarters for American Zoetrope, the film studio started by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas (and now owned by Coppola kids Sofia and Roman), since 1972. Cafe Zoetrope on the street level has Coppola wines along with film posters and memorabilia. The intersection out front was where members of the Enterprise boarded a Muni bus in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”

Site of perhaps the most memorable scene in S.F. history, as Jimmy Stewart saves Kim Novak in "Vertigo." Film crews built the steps Stewart uses to carry Novak up from the bay, and the area used in the scene is now fenced off. Fort Point was also seen in "The Presidio,” “Dark Passage,” “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” and others.

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Fort Point

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Alta Plaza Park

The large south stairs were used in the wild car-chase scene in “What"s Up, Doc?” Damage from the filming can still be seen today, and prompted the city to start reviewing all stunts before approval. The park also appears in “The Conversation” and “Copycat.”

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Alta Plaza Park

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Alta Plaza Park
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1462 Grant Ave., North Beach

Today you can get North Beach Pizza here, but this is where Mike Myers got his haggis (and Nancy Travis) in "So I Married an Axe Murderer." It was called “Meats of the World” in the film but was formerly Iacopi’s (a favorite of Francis Ford Coppola) and Prudente & Co. delis.

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1462 Grant Ave., North Beach

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1462 Grant Ave., North Beach
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McDonald’s at Third and Townsend

Originally slated to be a Doggie Diner, the fictional “Acorn Cafe” is where Dirty Harry delivers his famous “go ahead, make my day” line to a robber in “Sudden Impact.” The Dirty Harry movies filmed all over San Francisco and inside City Hall, with famous scenes at Kezar Stadium, Mt. Davidson, and Washington Square.

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McDonald’s at Third and Townsend

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Taylor and Vallejo, Russian Hill

Among all the “Bullitt” chase scene locations, this one gets the most hangtime. The famous scene darts all over the city but Steve McQueen’s Mustang and the Dodge Charger he’s chasing get big air over this plateau.

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Taylor and Vallejo, Russian Hill

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Taylor and Vallejo, Russian Hill
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Union Square

Used for the opening scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Conversation” (pictured), which also shot around the Embarcadero and at Alta Plaza Park.

Photo: Courtesy, American Zeotrope

Union Square

Used for the opening scene of Francis Ford...

Union Square
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Shreve and Co. jewelers, Union Square

Woody Allen filmed “Blue Jasmine” here and several locations around S.F., including the Marina, the Mission, Aub Zam Zam in the Haight and South Park in SoMa.

The Telegraph Hill art-deco building was where Lauren Bacall sheltered Humphrey Bogart in the film noir classic “Dark Passage.” Today, residents put a Bogart cutout in the window of No. 10, the apartment used in the movie.

In homage to “The Maltese Falcon,” the plaque commemorates a fictional death with the words “On approximately this spot Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done in by Brigid O’Shaughnessy.” You can also visit a replica of the falcon used in the film and other artifacts at John’s Grill on Ellis St.

Built in 1922, the marquee got a facelift for the filming of “Milk” in 2008. The fare is diverse, from sing-alongs to film festivals, classic films, and Q&As.

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The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St.

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The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St.
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The Golden Gate Bridge

The bridge has been in more than 60 feature films. It has been destroyed by an array of creatures (the octopus in “It Came From Beneath the Sea” is shown); was visited by James Bond (“A View to a Kill”), Superman (1978’s “Superman”), and the Star Trek crew several times; it was even re-routed to Alcatraz (“X-Men 3: The Last Stand”).

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The Golden Gate Bridge

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The Bay Bridge

The bridge is best known for Dustin Hoffman driving the wrong way in "The Graduate” (he was heading to Berkeley on the westbound-only upper deck). The bridge was also seen in “Shadow of the Thin Man” and others, and scaled by Brendan Fraser in “George of the Jungle.”

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The Bay Bridge

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2640 Steiner, Pacific Heights

This large San Francisco Victorian was the family’s home in "Mrs. Doubtfire,” directed by S.F. resident Chris Columbus. Shown is star Mara Wilson there in 2000.

These two intersections have great views of the Transamerica Pyramid and Coit Tower, and characters lived nearby in several films: “Foul Play,” “Play it Again, Sam,” “Basic Instinct,” “The Wedding Planner,” “Vertigo,” and “The Woman in Red.” Pictured is Goldie Hawn’s Vallejo St. apartment from “Foul Play.”

Used memorably in “Milk” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” City Hall also makes a cameo at the end of “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” and is featured in several other movies. Civic Center Plaza is seen with an ape army marching through it in a trailer for the upcoming “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”

The opera house was used in several movies, including “Foul Play” and “Jade.” According to the book “Celluloid San Francisco,” the plaza next to the opera house was used by Francis Ford Coppola to stand in for Chicago in “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” and Coppola paid to restore the plaza’s gilded gates. The movie came out in 1988 but the gates still shine today.

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War Memorial Opera House

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Sutro Baths

In “Harold and Maude,” the pair stage a Vietnam war protest and chase here. Maude falls down a hole, which is now cemented over.

Visit the island and you can see the "Escape from Alcatraz" cell (pictured), recreate the final flare scene from "The Rock," or ask a ranger to do his best Phil Hartman impression from "So I Married an Axe Murderer." The prison was also featured in "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Murder in the First," and "The Birdman of Alcatraz."

Photo: Frederic Larson, The Chronicle

Alcatraz

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Alcatraz
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Alamo Square

Used for the final scene of “The Five-Year Engagement,” also in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “Nine Months,” and “Murder in the First.” And also in some TV show…

Photo: Lacy Atkins, The Chronicle

Alamo Square

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Alamo Square
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555 California St., the Financial District

The former Bank of America building was the tallest in S.F. when it was used in the opening scene of “Dirty Harry” (pictured). The exterior was also used as the tower in “The Towering Inferno.”

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555 California St., the Financial District

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555 California St., the Financial District
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The Moscone Center

According to IMDB.com, the computer conference featured at the end of “The Net” was the actual 1995 MacWorld conference, with different banners.

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The Moscone Center

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The Moscone Center
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Mission Dolores

Jimmy Stewart follows Kim Novak through the church and out to the cemetery, where she inspects the grave of Carlotta Valdes. The cemetery is still there but the area where the Valdes headstone would be is paved over.

Photo: Courtesy, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Historic landmark had been in disrepair, but is on track to become an Alamo Drafthouse and condo complex. In a May 7 Facebook update, the Alamo Drafthouse said “Permitting has taken WAY longer than expected but we are almost through the process and renovation should begin in earnest very soon. We are 100% committed to restoring and opening this space.”